Help! My Ponies need treatment, but I am unsure about how to help.

[Lighting Glitter Pixie]

Hello. I am a novice on My Little Pony restoration and use of forums in general.
Please do forgive me if I am not doing anything correctly.
I had My Little Ponies (generation 1) that I recieved as a child from local yardsales. At a certain point, my grandmother held onto them for me and I recently reunited :smilepony:
Unfortunately, it seems as some damage occurred in the storage. I have been reading other postings, sites, collector restoration advice articles, etc. The information kept conflicting on certain topics. I kept coming to this site, so I figured if anyone might know what I can do, it be here.

On to the ponies, the two of most concern for me at the moment are Cheif and Powder

Chief has what I believe is brown mold spots:



Powder has pin dot mold (focus on neck behind hair):

and regrind (back leg):


There is also Ceusinho/Sunlight, with dried locks and sticky surface. However I read this is normal for this pony


I hope the pictures show up. Anyway, does anyone have advice on tested and true methods for treating most of this problems. Chief and Powder are my favorite of my older ponies and it makes my heart break to see this.........
Please, any guidance is appreciated. :Chief::helpsmilie:

 

[Truly]

I'm really sorry to say that poor chief has cancer, I have no idea how and if it's possible to "cure" but I hope someone does! My Chief also has cancer and I've just loved him as-is.

And with the other ponies, I put the ponies into hot water and gently as possible remove the heads and scrub EVERYTHING with a toothbrush and soap and warm water to help remove dirt and things. I also use mentholated spirits or nail polish remover (be VERY careful around symbols and eyes with any kind of remover as it may remove them!) and leaving beheaded ponies to soak in very hot water helps to reduce/remove dirt and mold/rust even, just be prepared for a sore arm from scrubbing:LOL:

Once I am done scrubbing and cleaning, I dry the pony's body and head in every direction for a long time, with paper towel/tissues stuffed inside to soak up extra water. I dry them for weeks to be sure.

I also remove washers and metal but keep it in a bag for each pony (not with them) to avoid rust. (I'm very paranoid lol) I also dry the tail seperately so that no water is left inside the pony.

That spot on powder's leg, i'm unsure if it can be removed, but sometimes with ponies that ive opened up and cleaned out once I cleaned them it turned out that the discolouration was from the gunk inside the pony. this may or not be the case. (I hope for you that it comes out!)

I'm yet to try boiling ponies with vinegar in water to see if that helps remove ingrained dirt, Hopefully I can test that soon for you or that someone here has tried it!

I really hopes this helps, just ensure they dry very well before putting them back together!

(with putting tails back in I thread a loop of fishing line though the tail hole from the outside so that a loop comes out the neck hole, then I pull the tail through gently with the other end of the line so that nothing breaks!)

I hope i'm making sense!

 

[ladyofthenight]

I've just started collecting G4s, and for the most part those have either been purchased MIB or from other collectors, so I'm not experienced at restoration yet. But from what I've read online, there's nothing you can do about the pony cancer or the regrind. I think you can fix the pin dot and the plasticizer breakdown, though.

The best place to find information and tutorials on this sort of thing is the MLP Preservation Project. Here's a link to their body restoration page. Let us know if anything on there worked!

 

[MidnightChyld]

I've bought baits and dealt with some of these issues. I agree with Truly on the cancer. I have several G1's with it and nothing much you can do about it. But I bought them that way so it doesn't bother me.

The pin dot is pretty easy. I do an all over wash with a brush and dawn soap then I make a second bath with oxy-clean and a lil more soap. I then sat them out in direct sun on the back porch for a day.

I get generic oxy from the dollar tree that comes in a powder.